Press Release

Centripetal Networks Named a 2017 Gartner “Cool Vendor” in Security

July 25, 2017

Herndon, VA – July 25, 2017 – Centripetal Networks, the first company in the cybersecurity market to fully operationalize and automate threat intelligence through its Threat Intelligence Gateway platform, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has named Centripetal to the list of “Cool Vendors” in the “Cool Vendors in Security for Technology and Service Providers, 2017” report, authored by Ruggeru Contu, Lawrence Pingree, Deborah Kish and Dale Gardner.

Gartner is widely viewed as the leading industry analyst firm for the cybersecurity market. The distinguished designation as a 2017 Cool Vendor by Gartner, recognizes the innovation that Centripetal is delivering to customers with persistent protection of advanced threats by operationalizing intelligence-driven security.

“We are honored to be recognized as a 2017 Cool Vendor by Gartner,” said Steven Rogers, CEO of Centripetal Networks. “We are delivering a new set of capabilities for security teams with our technology by removing manual investigation against millions of compromise indicators, and dramatically reducing the volume of network events.”

Centripetal is operationalizing threat intelligence at unmatched speed and scale in the cybersecurity market. With the capability to automatically enforce millions of complex IOC-generated rules in seconds and to apply them to live traffic, Centripetal is significantly reducing workloads and dramatically improving the security posture of the enterprise.

Centripetal has achieved unprecedented breakthroughs in scale, speed, and in the operationalization of cyber defense at full network speed with zero performance impact. With the integration of over 3,000 specialized threat feeds through 40+ intelligence partners, Centripetal delivers a truly scalable and dynamic threat prevention platform to the enterprise and Federal agencies.

Centripetal delivers the market’s only patented Threat Intelligence Gateway platform to customers so they can persistently prevent up to 90% of known threats with rapid correlation capabilities, and automated enforcement of millions of IOC policies. Centripetal’s CleanINTERNET, a fully managed, intelligence-driven security service, leverages these distinct advantages with its QuickTHREAT and RuleGATE technologies to protect companies of any size.

Centripetal is headquartered in Herndon, VA.

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